SSL VPN

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Thu Jun 19 11:55:17 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 01:00 -0400, John Priddy wrote:
> ssh doesnt really have anything to do with ssl vpn or vpn in general for
> that matter.  im not sure i fully understand what your asking, but yes,
> you can tunnel traffic through ssh to other ports.  see the -L option of
> ssh.  of course the ssh port will have to be both open and forwarded
> from the router/firewall to the big bad internet.  opening up this
> pretty much defeats the purpose of a vpn/firewall architecture though.
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:48 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:14 -0400, John Priddy wrote:
> > > Oh, forgot to mention -- if your vendor is on this list, try using
> > > 'vpnc':
> > > 
> > > http://www.vpnc.org/member-list.html
> > > 
> > > http://www.vpnc.org/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > There should be howtos on this all over the web.
> > > 
> > 
> > > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm just curious and maybe completely off base, but is there any way to
> > use ssh to contact the server if I first ssh out from the server?
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> 

I guess I did not explain well. First, I ssh from the server (which is
behind a firewall) out to my home computer and leave this connection
open. Then when I go home, is there any way that I can use this
connection from home? That is, can I somehow tunnel back through from
home to the server over this connection? I may be totally off base, but
I thought I read somewhere that this could be done.

Rick B.




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